After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

During World War II, Japan launched a little-known but deadly attack on North America using balloon bombs. These silent weapons traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific, designed to cause ...

The traveling exhibition “Taken From Their Families” tells the story of Japanese American incarceration on Angel Island ...

However, employees organizing the inventory of a Kentucky museum were in for a shock when they discovered a Japanese hand grenade from World War II. The incident took place at the Behringer ...

TOKYO — Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed ...

Pvt. Oscar Avery Cox and other Bataan prisoners of war endured harsh conditions during World War II, including a miles-long march through hell. Despite the adversity, Cox and three fellow POWs decided ...